Nahum 3:10

Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Ver. 10. Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity] Whereof though there be no other record, yet we ought not to doubt the truth, since it is here alleged by the Holy Ghost, as a thing either done before or shortly after to be done, as may be probably gathered from Jer 46:25 Ezekiel 30:19; Eze 30:21 cf. Jeremiah 20:5; Jeremiah 44:28. To God (by reason of the vastness of his being) all things are present. As he that stands on a high mountain, and looks down, though to the passenger that goes by some are before some behind, yet to him they are all present; so here.

Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets] A terrible spectacle to those that passed by; who were to look for little mercy, when children, in whom there is so little guile or gall, and who are usually favoured for their innocence and ignoscence, met with such hard measure. See Trapp on " Hos 13:16 " War is an evil, Isaiah 45:7, such as no words (how wide soever) can sufficiently set forth. Bellum a belluis.

And they cast lots for her honourable men] Whether so for age or authority; the dice were cast on them for slaves, as Obadiah 1:11. A great alteration on the sudden. Tamerlane's coach horses were conquered kings; Adonibezek's dogs, seventy kings, gathering crumbs under his table; Sapores used the Emperor Valerian for a footstool; Croesus, carried captive by Cyrus, cries out, "O Solon, O Solon"; Gelimer: led in triumph by Belisarius, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity," and calls to him for a crust to relieve him, a cittern to solace him, and sponge to dry his eyes with (Procop. lib. ii de Belle Vandal.).

“ Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia file:

Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt. ”

Henry IV, Emperor of Germany, after 10 years' reign was deposed; and by his enemies, driven to that exigent, that he desired only a clerkship in a house at Spire, of his own founding; which was barbarously, by the bishop of that place, denied him. Our Henry VI, that had been the most potent monarch for dominions that ever England had, was, when deposed, not the master of a molehill nor of his own liberty, but beaten and wounded, &c., to show that mortality is but the stage of mutability, when "they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills," Lamentations 4:5 .

Bound in chains ] Not of gold, as Zenobia was; but of iron, as the word signifieth.